On Friday 15th April, around 2.5 weeks ago, the domains of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and UB/Absolute Poker were seized by the FBI in America.

The domain seizure had effectively meant that the three largest US poker sites had been taken down for a limited period of time (depending on players’ dataservers and country of their IP). The closure of the 3 biggest US-friendly sites meant that massive numbers of recreational and professional online poker players were looking for other US-friendly rooms to play at. Read the full article here